[jira] [Commented] (FLUME-2498) Implement Taildir Source

["Benjamin Fiorini (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Benjamin Fiorini commented on FLUME-2498:
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Great source, works very well from what I could test !

Even though it's easy to work around, it would be cool to also have:
- regex in the directories as well (eg: /var/spool/flume/.*/.*\.reports)
- be able to add the filename in the headers (could be useful if a regex is used in the filegroup)

> Implement Taildir Source
> ------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLUME-2498
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2498
>             Project: Flume
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Sinks+Sources
>            Reporter: Satoshi Iijima
>         Attachments: FLUME-2498-2.patch, FLUME-2498.patch
>
>
> This is the proposal of implementing a new tailing source.
> This source watches the specified files, and tails them in nearly real-time once appends are detected to these files.
> * This source is reliable and will not miss data even when the tailing files rotate.
> * It periodically writes the last read position of each file in a position file using the JSON format.
> * If Flume is stopped or down for some reason, it can restart tailing from the position written on the existing position file.
> * It can add event headers to each tailing file group. 
> A attached patch includes a config documentation of this.
> This source requires Unix-style file system and Java 1.7 or later.



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